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protection against possible hypergolic fuel

• Quekid5 4y ago
  The stuff of nightmares. You might say... nightmare fuel.
  • PhasmaFelis 4y ago
    Now you're just being hypergolic. (But seriously that stuff is awful)
    • throwanem 4y ago
      John Clark's "Ignition!" is back in print, as it happens. It's a personal history of liquid rocket fuel research in which there's a lot of chemistry of which I understood none, but the stories made it worth reading anyway.
      • eesmith 4y ago
        Available at https://archive.org/details/ignition_201612 https://archive.org/details/ignition_201612 and https://archive.org/details/ignitioninformal0000clar https://archive.org/details/ignitioninformal0000clar .
      • Quekid5 4y ago
        I... might get that one. I've only read snippets, but the "running shoes" bit always gets me :D